Nestled at the foot of Pine Mountain, Rose Hill has one traffic light, one patrol car, and one cold-blooded killer.

When rich and rotten Theo Eldridge is found bludgeoned to death in the local veterinary clinic, Rose Hill police chief Scott Gordon is forced to work with ambitious county investigator Sarah Albright. Unfortunately Sarah seems more interested in seducing Scott than in solving the crime.

Scott’s crazy about Maggie Fitzpatrick, but she's still grieving over the mysterious disappearance of the love of her life. Although determined to resist the powerful chemistry between them, Maggie finds herself deeply involved with Scott's investigation, and battling emotions she can no longer deny.

It’s a bitterly cold January in Rose Hill. As Scott and Maggie untangle the sticky web of Theo's shady business dealings, they uncover dark secrets that may connect Theo's murder to another committed twenty years before.

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About the Author

Pamela Grandstaff grew up in West Virginia and lives in the beautiful Ohio River Valley. She is the author of the Rose Hill Mystery Series as well as children's books "June Bug Days and Firefly Nights" and "Ella's New Hat and Her Terrible Cat."

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I had some difficulty accepting the background information and setting of this "who dunnit". I felt that was more than a bit distracting at times as my brain would go off on a "wait a minute when did that..." scan instead of staying focused on the story progression. I grew up in a small farming town of 5,000. The year round inhabitants of Rose Hill number a mere 500 - to me, that is just a wide spot in the road, not a town, even if there is supposedly a nearby college and ski or snow play attractions. It just did not ring true with my rural experiences. I never felt as if I was immersed in the setting or the story because of the disconnects. Suddenly, there is snow on the road and they are shoveling a path or tracking snow into a possible crime scene but in the prior or next scene, there is no mention of snow or even cold weather. Wouldn't there have been footprints left by the perpetrator?

The town has its diversity of residents who are still divided into groups based on their ancestry - the Irish (who own the pub), the Italians, etc. In a town with only 500 residents, I doubt the ancestral heritage dividing them would be so strong. The inhabitants of such a small town would be mostly a homogenous group sharing similar values and history.

I gave the effort a generous 3 star rating mostly for effort and in appreciation for editing. I wasn't distracted by grammar, punctuation or formatting as can often be the case with Amazon Kindle self published works. Rose Hill's setting and background development needs to be tweaked for authenticity. Define what season it is and stick with it for the story, don't just suddenly have nasty winter driving conditions appear and disappear based on the necessity of a reason for a car crash. BTW, I live in the mountains with year round visitors coming in for boating, skiing and hiking. When it snows, that is a big event that changes pretty much every aspect of our daily lives.

Better than averageThe plot is interesting, but some what predicable. The main characters, Maggie and Scott are well developed and believable.

There were too many sub plots, none of which were concluded in this book. I realize that it has become fashionable to make your first book a hook for the sequels, but a book should stand on its own. If only the plot that is concluded was placed in this book, this would be a short story.

Just to mention a few unresolved plots; Ava's husband deserted her seven years ago, for an unknown reason; he is out of the country, but Ava is getting hang-up calls that sound like international calls. This mystery is left unfinished. Maggie seems to be in love with Scott, but Drew is also a suitor and this is left hanging. The FBI starts a big investigation into some unspecified crime, but this is never solved or even explained what the crime is or how it fits into this story. The banker's wife is injured in a car wreck, maybe foul play, or not, and no reason is provided why this is even in the book, as it has no relation to the plot or main characters.It has been said that if a gun over the mantle is described in chapter one, it had better shoot something before the end of the book. This doesn't happen in this book.I like the characters in the book and the interaction between them, the story moves at a good pace.

I agree with other reviewers in that I thought there were too many characters and unnecessary boring details that had nothing to do with the plot. Maybe it just wasn't my style. I actually skipped to the end, which I have never done, to see how the mystery ended.

This book had way too may characters to keep up with. Some that weren't even pertinent to the story. I finally got through with this book for it to have just an ending. No build up not ending the way you thought. I was very disappointed.

This mystery had many twists and turns. The basic story was good, but their were too many characters, and it was sometimes hard to keep up with all of them. There was also too mush unnecessary information. I did not like the profanity.

This is a very enjoyable mystery set in a small town in western Pennsylvania, where everyone knows everyone else (including their foibles and their past failings, which play an essential role in the murder that takes place in the opening chapter. The victim is probably the most disliked person in town (with good reason), and the chief of police, who is new on the job (but is a local and therefore knows many of the shadows hanging over people) feels overwhelmed, but manages to solve the situation with some "help" from the woman he loves and her girlfriend and higher-ups in the form of county sheriff's officers and later the FBI, who mostly insist that he is not up to the job. During the course of the novel, he learns more of the secrets of the townspeople (expanding the number who have a motive for murder), and the interrelations get more and more complex. Not only does that make the solution more difficult for him, but it also nicely sets up future sequels (Pamela Grandstaff has already published several) that will evidently make use of other characters whom the reader has met and their problems.